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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Proposal for an Amiga Shell
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Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 14:56:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 14:56:02 1987
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/ mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer) /  7:45 am  Jan 19, 1987 /
>...where I first saw some of the basic features:
>
>Separate input/output:		Gosling emacs.
>" 	"     in windows:	UO LISP
>History:			InterLISP
>click to select,
>	double-click to run:	Apple LISA
>Selectable/editable history:	ksh
>History in a separate window:	Me(*)

First, let me say that I do like your proposal.

I'd suggest, though, that you take a look at XS-2, developed at E.T.H. Zurich.
It has most of what you have described.  Plus, at very little (if any) extra
cost, there are other very helpful features, such as easy user-interface
prototyping.

The reference I have is:

  Jan Stelovsky, "XS-2: The User Interface of an Interactive System", Doctor of
  Technical Sciences Dissertation, E.T.H. (Swiss Federal Institute of
  Technology), Zurich, 1984.

By the way, XS-2 was developed and runs on a Lilith.  Last I heard (which was a
while ago), somebody at U. of Washington was trying to port it to Unix.

Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
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